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News of the Appalachian Literary Arts For updates and expanded listings, please see our web site at www.berea.edu/appalachianheritage Since 1970, Berea College has presented an annual Weatherford Award to the year's outstanding Appalachian book. The Award, now co-sponsored by the Appalachian Studies Association, for the first time in 2003 was divided into two parts: fiction and non-fiction. The Weatherford Award in fiction was presented to Gretchen Moran Laskas for her novel, Midwife's Tale, published by Delacourt Press of Random House. The Weatherford Award in non-fiction was presented to Wilma A. Dunaway for Slavery in the American Mountain South, published by Cambridge University Press. Morehead State University has announced that this year's Chaffin Prize for Excellence in Appalachian Literature will be presented on June 3 to Elder John Sparks, author of The Roots of Appalachian Christianity: The Life and Legacy ofElder Shubal Steam. Oscar Rucker of Berea, Kentucky, died March 23, 2004, at the age of 69. Although he earned a PhD in geography, he was frustrated by academic politics and only taught sporadically. Rucker was the founder and proprietor of Kentuckee Imprints, a publishing firm that published both original works and reprints. The Tennessee Mountain Writers, Incorporated, presented at their annual gathering in early April their overall and poetry awards to Ina Hughs of Louisville, TN, their non-fiction award to Penny Dyer of Chattanooga, their fiction award to Joyce McDonald of West Monroe, LA., their inspirational writing award to Elsie Schmied Knoke of Oak Ridge, and their youth writing award to Judith K. Bingham of Alcoa. The West Virginia 2004 Writing Fellowship Winners have been announced by the West Virginia Commission for the Arts. A fellowship for Playwriting went to Sean O'Leary of Jefferson County. Ann Pancake of Kanawha County and Elizabeth Parrish of Berkeley County won a Fiction Awards. ...

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